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What is business law?

Business law relates to the laws that are applied to the business units that include partnerships and corporations. Most businesses work together in many different ways. These different ways can include business transactions, contracts, mergers, and leasing. How these different transactions are completed is supervised by the Business Law. Another larger part of Business Law is in the start up or formation of a business. The Business Law is an area that is very widespread and it normally deals with defining the rights and responsibilities of each business, rather than enforcing these laws.

What is international business law?

International business law is different from all the other areas of law. International business law is not classified as an area or governing body, but instead international business law relates to the many different laws, rules and traditions which oversee the influence and deal with the legal connections between the different nations, their governments, the businesses and organizations which will also include their rights and responsibilities as well.

What is the business law and regulation?

When owning a small business the owner is obligated to the same regulations as a larger corporation. When starting out with a small business, all owners must abide by the business law and regulations. Some of the business law and regulations include:
• Advertising Law
• Employment & Labor Law
• Finance Law
• Intellectual Property
• Online Business Law
• Privacy Law
• Environmental Regulations
• Uniform Code
• Contact a Government Agency
• Workplace Safety and Health
• Foreign Workers, Immigration and Employee Eligibility

According to the Business law, as a co-owner of a company how does someone get into the inventory and ownership money of the company if the partners want to dissolve the company without giving them ownership?

The other partners that are involved cannot control what is in the inventory by themselves in which creates loss for the other partners. If the other two partners have a majority they are allowed to dissolve the company. Any possessions would either be divided up between each partner or they could sell the assets and divide the money after paying any debts. If the other two partners to not do this then the one who has been affected by this they would have a claim for breach of fiduciary duty.

In the state of New York if a director of a school that is a private non degree, non credit, non diploma LLC, hired someone who does not have their bachelors degree would this affect the school in any way.

As for a private school teacher in the state of New York he/she would need to have at least graduated from high school, and have at least two years of experience in the teaching field. The qualifications and regulations for a private school teacher do vary from state to state.

Business law questions can often be very complex, and where to find the right source to answer the business law questions can often be frustrating. Contact the thousands of available Legal Experts online for more information pertaining to Business Law.

Published on: August 15, 2013

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I sell stock embroidery designs online. I purchase the designs from a small group of people, called digitizers, who make the designs just for me to sell. The digitizers produce 10 designs or more in one theme, we call this a set. One of these digitizers has been downloading designs from a competitor and selling to me. My competitor discovered this from a customer who belongs to both my site and my competitors. My competitor emailed me asking me to remove these sets. After my competitor did a audit on all the sets by this digitizer, it was discovered that she has been doing this for 4 years including this year. I would pay anywhere from $125 to $180 dollars for a design set.This digitizer has been downloading sets from my competitor, modifying the colors and sometimes resizes the design, stitch them out on her embroidery machine, take pictures of the designs and submit both to (me). Embroidery machine files will always be different between digitizers, never the same stitching order or fill patterns. The digitizer's designs are an exact copy of the stitch order and fill patterns,I removed the 60 sets, at the request of my competitor based on their audit, from my online collection that the digitizer sold to me.I have asked the digitizer by email to explain but she keeps giving me the run around in her email replies. However in the emails she said "and don't worry I will replace the sets with other sets that are similar in style." and in a later email "I will send you payments and get you paid back as soon as possible, but I will need a list of what was removed". I believe this implies guilt. I have supplied her this list on Feb 27th and have not heard back from her.I have asked to pay me back all I paid her, in full and threatened to charge her with fraud (with is felony in Virginia where she lives). Assuming each set was bought at $125 that would be she would $7500 in fraudulent transactions.I do not know how many others sets she has copied and sold to me. These 60 are the ones she was caught with, from one competitor. I have asked for a list of other sets she copied and sold to me twice, no response back.Now the competitor on Mar 3rd wants me to pay a settlement of $100 per set (they seem to think there are only 58 sets). Here is the email they sent to me:------------------------------------------------------------------------------As we do not believe that (me) intended the massive copyright infringement we will be very reasonable - even though you have provided our designs for free for more than 4000 customers, sold them separately and on eBay.1) You can select to pay $100 per set which will give a total of $5800 which is most likely less than you have earned on them. By doing this you customers can keep the designs they have downloaded but it will not grant you resale rights.or2) Contact all your current and past customers with a list of the 58 sets and information that these sets should be deleted instantly or purchased through (my competitor) as they are the property of (my competitor) and have been provided without license by (me).This notice must also be placed on your entry page at (my web site) for two months.Please let us know how you would like to proceed ?Regards(competitor's name)------------------------------------------------------------------------------I refuse to advertise my competitor to my buyers on my web site or by email and have told the competitor:"I am not at fault in anyway. You too have to settle with the digitizer if you want compensation." and the response back was "This is no different than if you purchased a cd with 10.000 designs at eBay and started selling them. We gave you two options, one was a settlement of $100 per set and the other option was simply to inform your customers of the infringement and ask them to delete the sets. Please let us know if this is your final decision ?"I responded stating "neither". I later sent a message to them stating that was not what has been offered to me, I will not advertise a competitor to my buyers. That email was sent today, March 3rd, 2015.Now a big problem: Digitizer live in Virginia, competitor is in Denmark and I am in Ontario, Canada.Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.

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